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George Bush made the decision yesterday to hand over sovereignty to Iraq-two days before the proposed June 30th deadline-after a request from the Iraqi government and its Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who had been discussing the idea with American officials for more than a week. After a phone call with Allawi from Istanbul, Turkey-where Bush is attending a summit of NATO leaders-Bush said it was okay to go forward the next morning if the security situation permitted. After phone calls early this morning from National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice to Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer...
...respond to a request for comment...
...suggestions that the redaction request could be interpreted as an effort to provide political cover for Cheney, a CIA official responds that "the purpose of declassification review is to protect intelligence sources, methods and other classified matters which, if disclosed, could be helpful to adversaries, like weapons proliferators and terrorists. It is not to stifle criticism." Leaders of the Senate panel don't see it the same way. "The Committee is extremely disappointed by the CIA’s excessive redactions to the report," Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, and Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and West Virginia Democrat, said...
...dispute said. The nomenclature clash even triggered a recent White House meeting in which the FBI's objections were aired. DHS first proposed the change late last year, sources there said. In February, it used the hoped-for title on the cover page of its fiscal 2005 budget request...
...Muralitharan has not bowled the doosra in a match since the verdict. Rajapakse has threatened to take the ICC to court, claiming that it is the Sri Lankan government's duty "to protect one of our national treasures." And last week, the Sri Lankan cricket board made a formal request to the ICC to change the rules to allow for Muralitharan's confounding pitch. Neither effort is likely to succeed. Meanwhile, Muralitharan has hinted he might pull out of Sri Lanka's tour to Australia next month. No cricket fan wants to see that, and that includes John Howard...